Crib



June 24, 1924. 1,499,182

. J. MIRABELLA CRIB Filed Sept. 1, 1923 3 Sheets-Sheet. l

INVENTOR WITNESS: ATTORNEY June 24, 1924. 1,499,182

- J. MIRABELLA CRIB Filed Sept. 1. 1923 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 MMM4 QM;

WITNESS: ATTORNEY June 24 1924.

J. MIRABELLA CRIB Filed Sept. 1.

1923 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 ATTORN EY Patented ET i5 June 24, 1924-.

JOE MIRABELLA, or roar ARTHUR, TEXAS;

' CRIB.

Application filed September 1, 1923.

1 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, Jon MZRABELLA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Port Arthur, in the county of Jefferson and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cribs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is the production of a perambulator in which the body thereof is removably secured on the running gear and is provided with means whereby the same may be hingedly attached to the corner post of a bed and whereby the same may be used as an ordinary baby carriage or as a crib.

A further object is to produce a baby carriage or perambulator having a removable body, and to provide a bedstead with means whereby the body may be hingedly secured thereto, the said body having open sides closed by hinged members which are latched to the frame of the body, and the said body being so supported from the bed as to permit of the same being swung away from or alongside of the bed so that the mother of the infant reclining in the bed may attend to its wants without arising from her bed.

To the attainment of the foregoing and other objects which will present themselves as the nature of the invention is better understood, reference is to be had to the drawings which accompany and which form part of this application.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention. employed as a perambulator.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof with the canopy removed.

Figure 3 is a view looking toward the front of the device. 1

Figure 1 is a view looking toward the rear of the device.

Figure 5 is a view showing the body of the improvement pivotally supported upon the corner post of a bedstead, the dotted lines showing the position of the side or door when in open position, and also the position of the bodywhen swung away from the bedstead.

Figure 6 is a'perspective view of one of the clamps attached to the corner post of the bedstead for the support of the crib body.

Preferably the improvement, except for the canopy, on the frame of the running gear is of metal.

Serial No. 660,547.

The running gear includes spaced plates connected by cross braces and having at their ends axles for wheels 1. The axle carrying plates 2 have secured adjacent to their ends arched plates 3. Centrally se cured to the arched plates 3 is a longitudinally' arranged bar 4. The bar, at a suitable distance from the plates 2 has its ends upwardly flangechas indicated by the numerals 5 and 6 respectively. The forward flange 5 has secured thereon two spaced inwardly directed upwardly inclined hooks 7 and 8 respectively, and the rear bar 6 has on its inner face a similar hook 9 arranged in a line with the upper hook 7 on the flange 5. v 1

Attached to theends of the flanges 5 and 6 there is an elliptical member 10 which has arranged thereovcr and depending therefrom a canopy 11.

Secured to the ends of the arched plates 3 and to the plates 2 there arepreferably cross scctionally rounded rods .12. These rods, outward of the rear plates 2 are continued at an upward angle, as indicated by the numeral 13, and the outer ends of the said angle portions 13 are rounded and are connected together by a handle element 14:.

On the rear plate 2 there are arranged brake means 15 movable laterally thereon to engage between the spokes on one of the rear wheels 1.

The crib body is elliptical in plan, and the lower member of the frame thereof, indicated by the numeral 16, has its forward end formed with an eye 17 to engage the lower book 8 on the flange 5. The upper member of the frame, indicated by the numeral 18, has its ends formed with eyes 19 respectively engageable with the hooks 8 and 9, and whereby the crib body is removably supported on the frame of the running gear. The upper and lower members ofthe crib frame are connected by vertical rods 20. The upper member of the frame, from its rounded ends. is extended downwardly, as at 21 and from thence longitudinally, as at 22. To the longitudinal portion 22 of the upper member of the frame there are hingedly secured, as at 23, the side-members 24 of the crib. The elements 21 of the said upper member of the numeral 27, is preferably in the nature of a wire mesh and is supported from the lower frame member of the crib by springs 28.

When the device is not employed as a perambulator the crib body is removed therefrom and is arranged in the sleeping apartment of the mother of the infant occupying the bed. To one of the corner posts 29 of the bedstead 3O occupied by the mother of !the infant, there are secured spaced, brackets 81 respectively. Each of these brackets preferably comprises a Hat plate having its central portion rounded and its straight ends provided with openings through which pass the arms of U-shaped bolts, the said bolts being engaged by nuts. Each body portion of the clamps 31 has an upstanding rounded end providing a hook 32, the said hooks designed for the reception of the eyes on the forward end of the crib body. Connected to the crib body there is a flexible element 33, the end of which being arranged in the bedstead and the same is designed to be grasped by the mother of the infant for swinging the crib body along the side of the bed. WVhen in such position, one of the hinged sides of the crib body is let down so that the mother will have free access to the infant in the crib. When the infants needs have been attended to, the open side of the crib body is swung to closed and latched position and a push upon the said crib will arrange the same at an outward angle with respect to the bedstead.

. Thus it will be noted, with any improvement, all the needs of an infant during the sleeping hours of the mother can be attended to with the least amount of physical exertion and trouble, and it is believed that the foregoing description, when taken in connection with the drawings will fully set forth the construction and advantages of the improvement to those skilled in the art to which such inventions relate, it being understood, however, that the nature of the invention is such as to render the same susceptible to such changes and modifications as fall within the scope of what I claim.

Having described the invention, I claim:

A perambulator having a removable body designed for use as a crib when detached from the perambulator, said body including a frame having eyes at the ends thereof and having open sides, hinged doors for closing the sides, latching means therefor, means on the frame of the perambulator to engage the eyes for supporting the body thereon, and bracket members secured to the post of a bedstead having hooked ends to engage with the eyes at one end of the crib body, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature.

JOE NLIRABELLA. 

